The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Be on the right way and go in the right direction. Once you are never going back, you will progress day after day, little by little.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.